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What sort of political Titan would think Hall looked like a winner? Oh.

CON-LAB swing 3.2%

This is the sort of policy heavyweight efforts we've missed out on. Pension funds to build affordable homes. No targets because "numbers" are the sort of thing Sadiq talks about.

Has anyone yet found an anti-Khan Twitter or Facebook comment that doesn't contain at the least a thinly-veiled Islamaphobic rant?

No, because that's the point.

satnav wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 8:09 pm Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton are both threatening to quit London following Khan's re-election. The day just gets better.

I hope they'll be very happy together after flouncing off into the sunset.

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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ ... 56457.html


'Proud' Susan Hall says she 'so nearly' defeated Sadiq Khan despite losing by record margin
The Tory candidate said it was the honour of her life to stand for mayor

Abernathy wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 11:47 pm https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ ... 56457.html


'Proud' Susan Hall says she 'so nearly' defeated Sadiq Khan despite losing by record margin
The Tory candidate said it was the honour of her life to stand for mayor

It probably was. She doesn't get out much.

davidjay wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:13 am

Abernathy wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 11:47 pm https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ ... 56457.html


'Proud' Susan Hall says she 'so nearly' defeated Sadiq Khan despite losing by record margin
The Tory candidate said it was the honour of her life to stand for mayor

It probably was. She doesn't get out much.

Shouldn't be allowed out much.

"You thought you'd gotten rid of her, didn't you, but you were wrong, Old Bean"

She's also been supporting Rupert Lowe Worst candidate ever, who did her bit to reduce the Tories to 9 seats in London. Still banging on about ULEZ, but I suppose she could save said something nastier, so that's positive.

Oh, and look who posted that meme: the Waitrose Wanker.

I really hope he learns just what FAFO means, or better still - gets a wine enema

Am I reading to much into it; but is the hint that he’s fallen of a little boat crossing the channel

We all saw Susan Hall's mayoral campaign first-hand.

Susan Hall is back — and Sadiq Khan and Labour should be very worried

I had the privilege of working with Susan during her mayoral campaign. I saw first-hand her attention to detail, her deep love for the city, and her refusal to play the political games so common at City Hall. Her goal wasn’t press coverage, it wasn’t lining up for a book launch at the end of it all, it was to make London better for people like you and me. https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/susa ... v2-lRu4iXN

Sadiq may have tried to dismiss her, but his record tells another story entirely. His mayoralty has been shaped by her opposition, whether he likes it or not. Just look at his ruling out of pay-per-mile, a policy he had supported so much it appeared in his own book.

He did kind of thrash her in the election.

I'm actually surprised how far Khan got with pay per mile. Always thought it was very unlikely, and haven't heard about it more recently.

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/londo ... ecret-plan

The idea that having a hopeless opponent was a big break on it seems rather unconvincing to me.

More generally, the Assembly isn't a very powerful or high profile body. Hall was both mayoral candidate and top of the list, so perhaps we should afford her some responsibility for the fact they lost a seat last time and have only 8 out of 25 members. Doubtless she's going to be as all of the detail as she was in the mayoral campaign.

All I remember from it was that she claimed falsely that her purse had been stolen I think.

If I was being kind I would say she genuinely dropped it, if I wasn't I reckon she was hoping it wouldn't show its face again either ending up in the TFL Lost property department that things never come back out of or someone would just take it.

Sadly for her she misjudged londoners and one proved that by handing it in, everything she ran on was just hateful bullshit that appeals to a small number of bellends on the east side who probably haven't been to central for a decade.

She also had an "interesting" Twitter history, better suited to running in an Alabama Republican primary, made silly dog whistles about Sadiq Khan not liking women, and bet the house on ULEZ which worked better in Uxbridge than London as a whole.

She was a worse candidate than Shaun Bailey, who was worse than Zac Goldsmith.

They have trouble getting anybody much to stand in London, which I don't understand. It's very hard to win, but surely a good platform longer term. Of all the business people in London, lots even now will be Conservative supporters. Is it really so hard to find an Andy Street among them?